1895 in literature

See also: 1894 in literature, other events of 1895, 1896 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Oscar Wilde introduces his new drama, The Importance of Being Earnest

New books

• Almayer's Folly – Joseph Conrad
• The Altar Of The Dead – Henry James
• The British Barbarians – Grant Allen
• The Brushwood Boy – Rudyard Kipling
• Chronicles of Martin Hewitt – Arthur Morrison
• The Coming of Theodora – Eliza Orne White
• En Route – Joris-Karl Huysmans
• Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
• Lilith – George MacDonald
• Master and Man – Leo Tolstoy
• The Queen in Yellow – Robert W. Chambers
• Quo Vadis? – Henryk Sienkiewicz
• The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
• Rose of Dutcher's Coolly – Hamlin Garland
• Scylla or Charybdis? – Rhoda Broughton
• The Second Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
• Sons of Fire – Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Sorrows of Satan – Marie Corelli
• The Time Machine – H. G. Wells
• The Woman Who Did – Grant Allen

Births

• March 29 – Ernst Jünger, author (+ 1998)
• July 24 – Robert Graves, writer (+ 1985)
• September 21 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925)

Deaths

• August 5 – Friedrich Engels, socialist writer
• November 27 – Alexandre Dumas, fils

Awards